Melissa McCarthy brilliantly shuts down sexist critic

Don't mess with McCarthy.

Sometimes there's nothing more satisfying than getting the last word, especially with someone who is just so wrong—and Melissa McCarthy managed to do that brilliantly with a critic who hit way below the belt.

In a new interview for Entertainment Weekly, the actress says that she came face to face with that critic—who wrote a vicious review of her performance in Tammy, which her husband Ben Falcone directed—at the Toronto Film Festival last year.

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'He'd said basically I'm only a good actress when I look attractive and that my husband shouldn't be allowed to direct me because he let me look hideous in this movie,' she told Ellen Degeneres this week.

'I put a lot of time and effort into having her completely not look like she cared about herself. That was part of how I felt she felt on the inside. I said, "Would you ever say that to a man?" He goes, "Well, you really looked bad."

We would probably go apeshit on this guy around this point, but McCarthy handled it like a total pro and calmly put him in his place. 'I said, "Just know every time you write stuff, every young girl in this country reads that and they just get a little bit chipped away," she continued. 'I just think we tear down women in this country for all of these superficial reasons and women are so great and strong.

She also asked the critic if he has a daughter, which he does. 'Watch what you say to her,' she said. 'Do you tell her she's only worthwhile or valid when she's pretty?' Fortunately, McCarthy reports that the man seemed to take it to heart. But ultimately, she told Degeneres, his initial review and response just represents an obviously much larger problem in our culture as a whole.

'I think that it's a bad habit that we've gotten into, and it's not that people are malicious. I just think it's so easy to take a swipe. Just go the other way; build it up.'

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